Single serve blog: Binders Full of Women

I am apolitical in that, honestly, I wish everybody would shut up about politics already. I am, however, a big fan of political gaffes.

Paul Ryan strong-arming his way into a closed soup kitchen to wash already clean dishes, Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” debatetastrophy, every time Joe Biden says anything — there is a lot of unintentional comedy in this year’s election. And if “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has taught us anything, it’s that unintentional comedy is often the funniest, particularly when toddlers, cats and jet skis are involved.

I know what Romney was trying to say with the whole “binders full of women” comment — I think — but, as the Internet has already pointed out, that phrasing just isn’t helping anyone. It isn’t helping Romney and it definitely isn’t helping women — but what do I know? I just write about liquor.

Romney’s comment has, naturally, spawned some impressively funny “binders full of women” jokes, most of which are posted at bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com, a blog created — within 60 seconds of Mittens’ comment — by a recently laid-off social media manager. By the next morning, blog creator Veronica De Souza had more than 1,600 submissions to sift through, which makes me wish I could high-five the Internet. Can the Internet be president now?